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More countries have joined the coalition to expand the limits set on iTunes for downloading songs onto your iPod. As reported earlier a consumer watchdog in Norway has deemed iTunes illegal because it doesn’t allow music downmloaded from it to be played on anything else except the iPod.

The Dutch consumer protection agency became the latest in Europe on Thursday to pressure Apple Inc. into changing restrictions that tie songs bought on iTunes to its market-leading iPod players.

“What we want from Apple is that they remove the limitations that prevent you from playing a song you download from iTunes on any player other than an iPod,” van Kouwen said. “When you buy a music CD it doesn‘t play only on players made by Panasonic. People who download a song from iTunes shouldn‘t be bound to an iPod for the rest of their lives.”